Cabello: The attacks on the People of Colombia are attacks on Venezuela too (+photos)

Published at: 23/10/2025 02:34 PM

The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, stressed that the attacks received by the People of Colombia, by the United States (USA), are the same as those that have been inflicted on Venezuelans and Venezuelans all these years.

“The attacks on the People of Colombia and Colombia are the same attacks on the People of Venezuela too, they are attacks on the Great Homeland, on the homeland of Bolivar,” he said during its Con El Mazo Dando No. 548 program.

He also extended his solidarity with the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, who today is being attacked by imperialism because of his Latin American and Bolivarian position . “ They have vilified him, pointed out, threatened him and also accused him of practices that only they manifest,” he said.

He pointed out that Petro is the only president of Colombia who has fought drug trafficking in his country. “I haven't met anyone else, the others couldn't fight drug trafficking because they were partners,” he stressed.

In addition, he criticized the silence of some governments in the region, subordinate to North American imperialism, who try to ignore the aggressions against Venezuela and Colombia .

“There are other presidents who play crazy: 'That's with Venezuela or with Colombia', no; imperialism doesn't work like that, Imperialism can be of interest, but friends don't, the day they stop being useful (subordinate governments) they discard it and if they can be taken prisoner they take it away,” he said.

For this reason, he emphasized that in the face of those who manage to attack free peoples, we must strengthen unity. “The Great Homeland calls on us united, all of us, against imperialism, or whatever it comes in disguise,” he said.

JGH has been the saint of the poor in Venezuela for years

“José Gregorio Hernández (JGH) today is a saint by all the laws, he has his license as a saint, but José Gregorio Hernández has been the saint of the poor in Venezuela for years,” said Cabello regarding the canonization of the also known as the doctor of the poor.

In this regard, he stressed that it was thanks to President Nicolás Maduro that the People's Saint was raised to the altars, since for years the Venezuelan Ecclesiastical Hierarchy hindered him from being canonized.

“Who stood on their shoulders here the canonization of José Gregorio Hernández? Wasn't it Nicolas Maduro? Whatever they say (...) Here the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy sent letters to the Pope telling him that José Gregorio Hernández could not be a saint because he was used by sorcerers, they even accused him of being homosexual as a reason not to be sanctified,” he said.

In addition, he revealed that the elevation to the altars of San José Gregorio Hernández was going to take place in the month of April last year, but the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy opposed it. In turn, he indicated that those papers and obstacles, as well as the names of those who signed them, will come to light one day.

“These are not men of God, man of God is the People; man of God is the man and woman who is on the street doing good to people,” he stressed, pointing out that this Hierarchy has no morals to scold or command this People.

He emphasized that, despite the sabotage, Venezuela today has two Saints. “We have Saint Joseph Gregorio Hernández and Saint Carmen Rendiles (...) whoever doesn't want to believe in saints who don't believe, here there is freedom of worship, but respect those who do believe in saints, well. That is the basis of coexistence, of respect for what you believe and what I believe,” he said.

In the United States, a trial should be opened for Godreau's confessions

The also sectoral vice-president of Politics, Public Security and Peace assured that because of the confessions recently made by the American mercenary Jordan Goudreau about the plans to invade Venezuela, it should be enough to open a trial in the United States (USA).

“It's a testimony and I imagine he must have the evidence, but no one has stopped him (...) But if justice existed in the United States, what this man says should be enough to bring a crowd to justice, but we know that there is no justice there. There has never been and now less so,” he said and specified that with the mercenary's statements, even the US president could be brought to justice.

He pointed out that confessions such as those made by the terrorist in another country had been a scandal, noting that Goudreau, in an interview, revealed the origins of the Donald Trump Administration's war narrative against Venezuela, and that he revealed that the Cartel of the Suns, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1990s to facilitate drug trafficking.

He also indicated that the mercenary took over the attack on electrical installations in the country and the attack on the Amuay Refinery in August 2012, which he attributed to the CIA and a group of Venezuelan mercenaries.

“Political mercenaries, who knew what was going to happen and didn't give a damn about the death toll. This gentleman says it, I'm not going to defend him, he must have proof of everything he says,” he said and reiterated that “in the United States they should open a trial, but they don't dare, because he might show them (the evidence)”.

He added that Goudreau, with these statements, “reveals this operation (Operation Gideon), reveals the participation of the United States, the Venezuelan opposition, the participation of the CIA and reveals the participation of the Lima Group. Those former presidents were the ones who were going to stick their hands here in Venezuela, to steal what happened to all Venezuelans.”

In addition, Cabello specified that “Juan Guaidó was able to offer drug dealer Iván Duque all of Venezuela's La Guajira and Lake Maracaibo to get rid of his drugs. Which is the same thing that La Sayona offers today, because the drug they take out of Colombia goes to the largest consumer in the world, which is the United States.”

He also reaffirmed that this shows that the attacks against Venezuela are not new. “They assume it without any kind of problem and nothing happens,” he said.

The thing about Argentina is exploding, that town is jaded

The revolutionary leader stressed that the Argentine people are tired of the neoliberal policies of the current ultra-right president Javier Milei.

“ That town is already tired! And when they rub my face or you support whoever I say or I take my support away from you, I don't know what I support?” , questioned in reference to the threat launched by President Trump against Argentines in the face of the parliamentary elections in the southern nation this Sunday, where he asked to vote for Milei's candidates.

He also referred to the current crisis that the South American country is going through due to the policies implemented by Milei, which have increased unemployment due to the closure of factories and the mass layoffs carried out by companies.

“Argentina is a matter of time (...) they are going to get into trouble with that people, that people are tough,” he warned.

I've had a crush on the CIA, all my life

The Minister for Interior, Justice and Peace also assured his contempt for the CIA, in connection with the comparison made to him by the longliner Emmanuel Rincón and a far-right like José Amalio Graterol with the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.

“No, I'm not Noriega, he was a CIA agent all his life. I have had a crush on the CIA all my life,” he said.

At the same time, he specified to that opposition that “there is a small difference, I don't know if they convinced Noriega and they said: You take out that machete and that's it, solved the problem (...) the problem is that you (don't understand) when a people decide to be free, even with a machete in your hand, a knife, with a stick. That's a problem. A Conscious People”.

In the same way, he questioned how these sectors of the extreme right insist on underestimating the people of Venezuela, making fun of the preparation and organization for the defense of the Homeland.

“They (extremist opposition) insist on underestimating us (...) We are Caribbean, and we face anyone,” he said, noting that the peasant people, with their machete in hand, have joined the training to defend the territory against any aggression.

More than one will leave before Maduro leaves

“Put your batteries on, you're going to leave more than one before (President Nicolás) Maduro leaves, it's happened to them, it's happened to them,” Cabello said, referring to how imperialism has changed its narrative of the supposed fight against drug trafficking and now they're talking openly about regime change.

He pointed out that the current US administration, with these actions against Latin American peoples, is generating anti-American sentiment throughout the region.

“The people of the United States have nothing to do with those who govern them, but they are generating a sense of rejection towards the United States, not only in Venezuela they will be seen as the aggressors,” he warned.

He reiterated that imperialism “no longer speaks, it is direct 'regime change', they have forgotten the fight against drug trafficking, it has fallen into the background and they don't even use it to justify aggression against Venezuela because the excuse now is 'regime change'”.

In addition, he took the opportunity to recall how many of those US officials who have tried to intimidate Venezuela have ended up, as in the case of Jhon Bolton, who is now being charged by US authorities.

Mazo News Team